Oracle RAC 11g Release 1 Clusterware is not supported. Make sure that you install Oracle RAC 11g Release 2 Grid Infrastructure in order to use the Oracle RAC 11g Release 1 database. All database versions starting from Oracle 10g Release 2 and later are supported.
Table: Supported upgrade paths for Oracle RAC lists the upgrade paths for Oracle RAC.
Table: Supported upgrade paths for Oracle RAC
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From current version
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Upgrade to |
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Oracle RAC 9i Release 2
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Oracle RAC 10g Release 2
Oracle RAC 11g Release 2 Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC 11g Release 1 database
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Oracle RAC 10g Release 1
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Oracle RAC 10g Release 2
Oracle RAC 11g Release 2 Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC 11g Release 1 database
Oracle RAC 11g Release 2
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Oracle RAC 10g Release 2
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Oracle RAC 11g Release 2 Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC 11g Release 1 database
Oracle RAC 11g Release 2
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Oracle RAC 11g Release 1
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Oracle RAC 11g Release 2 |
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When you upgrade to a different version of Oracle RAC, make sure that the full path of the Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure home directory and the Oracle database home directory is different from the path where the existing version of Oracle RAC resides. |
The upgrade procedure assumes that the beginning configuration includes the following components, and that these components are running on the cluster nodes:
